Maputo_(dpa) _ Hundreds of Mozambicans
suffering with HIV/AIDS protested Thursday in front of the country's major
hospital against the closure of their special care units, saying they fear
loss of privacy with the move.

The protests at the Hospital Central
de Maputo (HCM) followed the recent announcement by Mozambican Health Minister
Ivo Garrido that specialized units for HIV/AIDS treatments were to be closed.

The units, known as Centro Dia, are independently
run by nongovernmental organizations and offer specialist services, including
counselling, testing, treatment and …

Maputo_(dpa) _ The Mozambique Red
Cross said Friday that it was suspending its relief work in a crisis-hit
northern district after three volunteers were killed by mobs accusing them
of deliberately infecting water sources with the agent that causes cholera.

Two policemen that were trying to protect
the aid workers were also reportedly killed in the attacks in Mongincual
district, in the northern province of Nampula.

Nearly 100 people have died in a cholera
outbreak in the former Portugese colony since October.

Maputo_(dpa) _ At least 13 people
have died of cholera in Mozambique's north-western Tete province, bringing
to 84 the number of people in the country bordering Zimbabwe to have succumbed
to the disease since October, state radio reported Wednesday.

The deaths were recorded in the districts
of Moatize, Changa and Tete town, where over 1,000 people in total have
been diagnosed with cholera.

Health authorities in Tete attribute
the increase in infections to the heavy rains that are pounding the region
and surrounding countries, namely Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

Maputo_(dpa) _ Floods caused by
heavy rains in Mozambique have claimed at least 25 deaths since December,
officials said in reports published Wednesday, stressing that there was,
however, no cause for alarm.

National Disaster Management Institute
(INGC), General Director, Joao Ribiero, was quoted in the Noticias newspaper
as saying: "The heavy rains that are battering the country do not
constitute a cause for alarm.

"There is a need to pay special
attention to the probability of cyclones occurring, given the fact that
this is a fertile period for natural phenomenon," …

Maputo=5F(dpa) =5F The death toll from
recent flooding in Mozambique has risen to 15, with heavy rains continuing,
reported local officials.

The death toll increased by five as deaths
from Thursday in the central Mozambican provinces of Sofala and Manica
provinces were reported, officials said Friday.

"Four people died and four were
injured in the city of Chimoio, Manica province, and one person drowned
in the district of Nhamatanda, Sofala province," a source at the National
Disaster Management Institute told DPA.

Johannesburg_(dpa) _ The South African
government was on Friday awaiting a Constitutional Court ruling to begin
dismantling shelters housing thousands victims of a spate of deadly xenophobic
attacks earlier this year.

The country's top court was hearing an
appeal from a refugee support group to overturn a lower court decision
giving the government the green light to dismantle the camps.

The activists are calling on the government
to keep the camps open until it has come up with a comprehensive strategy
on how to reintegrate the refugees, mostly African migrants.

Maputo_(dpa) _ The government of
the southern African country of Mozambique is considering proposals for
legislation that would make access to food a basic right, a local newspaper
reported.

Mozambique's Noticias newspaper reported
this week that the state food and nutrition security technical secretariat
(SETSAN) had forwarded a declaration to the cabinet of President Armando
Guebuza that calls for such a legal instrument.

The declaration was drawn up at a recent
symposium on food security and nutrition in Maputo.

Johannesburg_(dpa) _ The reintegration
the foreign nationals who fled South African communities amid xenophobic
violence may not be possible for some time, the country's Human Sciences
Research Council (HSRC) said in a report on Monday.

At least 62 people were killed, hundreds
assaulted and raped and tens of thousands were driven from their homes
in a spate of xenophobic attacks that spread from Johannesburg's impoverished
Alexandra township to other parts of the country in May.

"If the government does not engage
with the sentiment being expressed by ordinary residents …

Johannesburg_(dpa) _ The reintegration
the foreign nationals who fled South African communities amid xenophobic
violence may not be possible for some time, the country's Human Sciences
Research Council (HSRC) said in a report on Monday.

At least 62 people were killed, hundreds
assaulted and raped and tens of thousands were driven from their homes
in a spate of xenophobic attacks that spread from Johannesburg's impoverished
Alexandra township to other parts of the country in May.

'If the government does not engage with
the sentiment being expressed by ordinary residents …

Johannesburg_(dpa) _ The Mozambican
whose burning silhouette came to define two weeks of xenophobic bloodletting
in South Africa was buried Monday in his home village as the controversial
relocation of thousands of displaced migrants continued around Johannesburg.

The Johannesburg-based Star newspaper
reported that Ernesto Nhamuave was to be buried in his native Vuca village,
north of Mozambique's capital, where he is survived by his wife and three
children.

Nhamuave is one of at least 62 mostly
African migrants killed since May 11 in attacks by South Africans accusing
migrants …

Maputo_(dpa) _ Mozambican authorities
have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the
Limpopo river valley near Kruger National Park after one of the floodgates
on a dam on the river broke.

According to Olinda Sousa, director general
of the southern water authority ARA-Sul, the gate on Massingir Dam was
releasing water at the rate of 1,000 cubic metres of water per second,
well above its normal rate.

Twenty-two localities near the river
were ordered to immediately evacuate, Sousa said.

The breakage, which occurred despite
recent repairs on the dam, comes as …

Maputo_(dpa) _ Nearly 9,000 Mozambique
nationals have crossed the border from South Africa, fleeing the xenophobic
violence that left at least 24 migrants dead, eight of them from Mozambique,
officials said Wednesday.

Maputo_(dpa) _ Authorities in Mozambique
have issued a red alert in several coastal districts as tropical cyclone
Jokwe moves south through the Mozambique Channel after killing at least
four people and injuring several others in the north.

Cyclone Jokwe hit northern Mozambique's
Nampula province Friday night at wind speeds of more than 200 kilometres
per hour, killing four people and causing widespread damage, Mussa Mustafa,
a spokesman for the Meteorological Institute, said.

Maputo_(dpa) _ Flooding caused by
heavy seasonal rains claimed three more lives over the weekend in Mozambique
where authorities bracing for a fresh surge along the Zambezi river were
battling to get supplies to around 2,000 families that had fled their homes.

The latest fatalities in the floods that
have claimed over 60 lives in southern Africa since December were reported
in Marromeu district in Sofala province, through which the Zambezi passes
on its way to sea.

Maputo_(dpa) _ Flooding caused by
heavy seasonal rains claimed three more lives over the weekend in Mozambique
where authorities were bracing for a fresh surge along the Zambezi river
and battling to get supplies to around 2,000 families that had fled their
homes.

The United Nations said it was looking
for close to 89 million dollars in assistance for Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia
and Zimbabwe, where floods have destroyed thousands of homes, washed away
crops and left around 449,000 people in immediate need of relief supplies.